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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Bela Lugosi

I’ll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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Important Paycheck Truthful
Supernatural perhaps…baloney, perhaps not!
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Black Cat Cat
Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he’d be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
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Actor Mad Plumbers
Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn’t stand it.
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Freak Reduce Stand
You can’t make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
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Believe People Play
There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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Ghouls Play School
I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
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Art Degrees Years
To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
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Challenges Compelling Offer
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
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Ignorance Lying Mean
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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Play Roles Years
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
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Fever Role Vampire
A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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Actor Performance Stage
If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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People Serious Seriousness
Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom
In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
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Necessary Theory Window
I never play without my cape.
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Capes never Play

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